Social medical network for diagnosis assistance

A system for diagnosis assistance comprising:

• memory which stores instructions for:
• receiving a request for a query from a requester, the query request including a new medical case;
• embedding the new medical case in an embedding space in which a set of existing medical cases and a set of experts are embedded;
• providing for the requester to select from a plurality of query types including a query-for-cases and a query-for-experts;
• when the query-for-cases is selected, returning a subset of the cases based on a computed similarity between the embedded new case and the embedded existing cases;
• and
• when the query-for-experts is selected, returning a subset of the experts based on a computed similarity between the embedded new case and the embedded experts;
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• a processor in communication with the memory for executing the instructions.

A method for diagnosis assistance comprising:

• for each of an existing set of medical cases, generating a multidimensional representation in an embedding space;
• for each of a set of experts, generating a multidimensional representation in the embedding space;
• receiving a new case for which a diagnosis is sought;
• generating a multidimensional representation of the new case in the embedding space;
• providing for a plurality of query types, including a query-by-cases at a first cost and a query-by-experts at a second cost, higher than the first cost;
• when the query-by-cases is requested, identifying a subset of the existing cases based on a similarity between the multidimensional representation of the new case and the multidimensional representations of existing cases in the set of cases;
• when the query-by-experts is requested, identifying a subset of the experts based on a similarity between the multidimensional representation of the new case and the multidimensional representations of experts in the set of experts, and providing for communicating the new case to one of the subset of experts for the expert to attempt to provide a diagnosis;
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• computing a cost for the query based on the query type requested.